Newsflash! Magliozzis bring chaos to National Conference of State Legislatures annual meeting. Cell Industry PR flacks still in confounded daze.

When our buddy Matt Sundeen from the National Conference of State Legislatures called us a few months ago to see if we'd like to be on a panel about driving and talking, we said, "Sure!"

Then, we listed our criteria:

1. Because we don't travel beyond the city limits of Our Fair City, their annual conference would have to be in Cambridge.

B. Matt would have to install a free, heated, outdoor swimming pool, complete with cabana, bar and pool boy, at each of our houses.

Unfortunately, Matt couldn't produce the pools. Nor could he move the conference, and its 7,000 delegates, from Chicago to Our Fair City. So, he told us to get lost.

Still, being the magnanimous kind of chumps we are, we offered to help out in the only way we knew how. We took calls. This time, about driving and talking--and from actual state legislators, who are, as you read this, fending off lobbyists and trying to make the right decision about cell phone legislation.

Here, then, are the results--the video our pal Matt made of us chatting with state legislators and the actual session in which we were verbally roughed up by all manner of cell phone lobbyists, along with a hired gun from General Motors thrown in for good measure.

But, hey, if you judge folks by their enemies, we just might be looking pretty good!

Never driving and talking, we remain,

Tom and Ray

Read our pal Joe's rundown of the recent National Conference of State Legislatures session on driving and talking. Listen to Tom & Ray talk with state legislators about cell phone legislation: Rep. Marsha Campbell, MO Topic: Marsha, Tom and Ray talk about the increasing driver distraction from new, high tech gadgets Sen. Steve Thompson, GA Topic: Should driving and talking really be illegal? Steve's not so sure. Rep. Mike Lawlor, CT Topic: Mike thinks it's okay to drive and talk... and Tom and Ray get a hemorrhoidal flare up. Sen. Tracey Eide, WA Topic: Tracey can't even get a bill passed to track cell phone-induced accidents. What's going on? Find out. Rep. J. James Marzilli Topic: Tom and Ray get a call from their buddy, local rep Jim Marzilli, and discuss the screwed up state of Massachusetts cell phone legislation.